October 2013By Omar Farah, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Like my client Fahd Ghazy, 90 out of the 164 men still at Guantánamo are from Yemen. Over one-third of all Guantá...
July 10, 2020...Six Pennsylvania inmates serving defacto life without parole sentences for crimes where they did not kill or intend to kill someone are challenging the state’s felony murder statutes as...
February 2, 2023We are thrilled to share this news: Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was transferred from Guantánamo to Belize today. He is the first “high-value” detainee to be released, and the...
May 11, 2017The day I learned of Michael Ratner’s passing, one year ago today, I had to travel to Richmond, Virginia to argue an appeal related to one of the Abu Ghraib torture suits CCR brought against an...
Our dedication to human rights and social justice struggles has led us to complement our legal work with robust advocacy and communications work, and a conscious effort to support grassroots...
Updated: December 11, 2024
November 24, 2009, New York – A group of former McCarthy era blacklist victims filed a friend-of-court brief in a Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Supreme Court case yesterday, arguing...
Katherine Gallagher is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works on universal jurisdiction and international criminal law cases involving U.S. and foreign officials...
Join CCR on the steps of City Hall to oppose the City’s request that remedies to reform the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices be delayed. Labor organizations, community groups, and others...
Updated: October 3, 2013
Biden administration conceals role at “lily pad” sites, where Afghans face months in limbo, inhumane conditions January 14, 2025, New York – The U.S. government has enlisted at least 36 countries to...
In the last three and a half years of my life, I have been fortunate enough to not only witness huge strides in the movement to end child sexual abuse but to have become a part of it. History is...
Updated: April 29, 2014
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